AAF Setl Minimum Need as 70 Groups Ready for Action
Columbus Ohio September 15 W Stuart Symington assistant secretary of war for air said the American Air Force estimates a minimum ready force of ten groups totaling about 490000 officers and men for instant readiness. He noted the 10 group figure had not yet been achieved and stressed balancing military needs with economic costs. He explained the risk based approach guiding force size and emphasized the aim to maintain adequate air power without crippling the economy.
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Columbus
W. Stuar
Symington
Tvar
Air Force
Ex Marine Wins With Needlework in Tulsa Fair
Ex Marine Lyle Grigg of Chelsea, Oklahoma won blue ribbons at the Tulsa State Fair for crafted needlework including a pet spread, loomed throw rugs, and a sofa pillow. A WWII Marine veteran who served at Bougainville, Guam and Iwo Jima was wounded in the head by a bullet, left disabled two years, and now undertakes rehabilitation to regain use of his hands through needlework.
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Tulsa
Okla
FA Reediewick Skall
Iwo Jima
Esrade
Lyle Grigg
Chelsa
Young Grigg
Bouanville
Guan
Wavy
Ed Grigg
Chel Sea
Piatt Auxiliary Committees Named
Piatt Auxiliary committees listed under Mrs. Bernice King president of the American Legion Auxiliary Platy National Park Post No 148 Ras announced standing committees firm vice president Mrs Tyma Blaxeman scegat vice president Mrs Nellie Govett Ame crmem LeNell Pootmas Chi Welfare Education and Community service Mable Fulton Mus k Birdie HUD Finance Amelia Miller History Ruth Pannell tivities Huth Coffman legislative Dorothy Millgan membership Tmt Blakermtte national defense Mima Bearnett Par American study publication publicity and radio Klavis old et rehabilitation Nellie Govett employment and Gold Stays Nell le Snodgrass memorial Helen Stover entertainment Addie Goffe Klaria Molder yun
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Bernice King
American Legion Auxiliary
Platy National Park
Tyma Blaxeman
Scegat
Nellie Govett
Ame
LeNell Pootmas
Mable Fulton
Musk
Birdie
Amelia Miller
Ruth
He Couldn't Crowd Horse Into Jail
Cincinnati dispatch reports Sheriff Maurice Wesselman failed to crowd a horse into a jail cell after it was found at a road intersection. The horse was moved to Silvarton jail, but its size prevented confinement, so the animal was kept outside. The horse reportedly began eating bone and was moved toward the librarians for care. In Carmen, a historic Bank building is slated for dismantling next month, a structure linked to the town’s founding and early banks.
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Cincinnati
Maurice Wesselman
Silvarton
Wesselman
Libroriam
Milk Price Increases Hit Ada Markets
Ada milk producers and wholesalers agreed to raise prices Tuesday. Milk, buttermilk, homogenized milk, chocolate milk, and cottage cheese costs rose by two cents per item, while orange juice remained unchanged. Prices for whole milk and cream climbed, reflecting earlier increases to four dollars eighty-five per hundred pounds, with retailers and bottlers sharing the burden.
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Ada
Jing
Sore Olitex
Oklahoma
Chiar “Hata
Mit
Amd
Will Rehalssalers
AMT Crear
Aducens
Kottlers
Black policeman struck Friday in city shooting
Dave Alberts, a Black policeman, was wounded in the left arm by a bullet Friday night near Fifth Street and Town Plot. He saw two men fleeing down an alley after the shot, but the shooter was not identified by late Saturday. The officer pursued the suspects and returned to duty.
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Dave Alberts
Jim
Alberts
Fifth Street
Tares
Three of Turner's Bulls Win at Tulsa
In Tulsa Odla Sept 16 Gov Roy J Turner did not attend the awards as three prize bulls won honors in the state cattle judging division. T Royal Rupert 190th was named champion steer of the division, while the gathering, at the annual field show in the Cadadian Valley, opens here today with fox hunters featured.
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Tulsa
Odla
Roy J. Turner
Turner
T. Royal Rupert
Wetumea
Ada Area Personal Notices Mixed With Weekend Visits
Ada residents and visitors fill a weekend with travels and social calls. Names include Kaywood, Jimmie Foreman Jr, Mrs. Miller of Sasakwa, Tessie Compton, Lena Jumper, Betty, Jimmie Foreman Jr, and many others visiting Ada or from Ada to Oklahoma City, Pryor, Wilson, and Allen. Several attend church, shop, or vacationing with family.
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Lena Jumper
Betty Ge Amous Alem
Samra Fosse Hensler
Oklabera
Hensler
Mercer: Adequate state workers for Oklahoma cotton season
Stillwater Oklahoma September 1 Mercer of the Oklahoma A and M extension division says there is an adequate supply of state workers to pick the 1937 cotton crop. He notes migratory farm workers are leaving for higher pay elsewhere and insists Oklahoma farmers can begin picking in the southern counties with plenty of labor available.
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Stillwater
Okla
Sapt
jPod
Mercer
Oklahoma A
M. College
Oklahoma
Ivor
Texas
Peace Treaty Sparks Cold War Clash Over Italy and Europe
A scrambled account foresees a struggle between an anti Western bloc led by Russia and a Western bloc led by retreating powers over Italy. The piece notes looming civil strife, labor unrest, and political maneuvering as the peace treaty ties Italy to Soviet influence. It mentions Stalinist rhetoric, Truman and Pius XII, and Russia’s bread aid amid a European harvest crisis.
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Russia
Furertea
Enother Sviel Tito
Soviet Union
Wac
Italy
Ang
Weill
Sim
Missolini
Munecry
Romania
Alreddy
Presa
Ifror: Moviena
Rome
United States
Moscow
Umar
Europe
Rustva
Perticalac
Alien Woman Hurt When her Pick-Up Track Turns Over
Mrs Billie Turner of Route 2 Aden is in Valley View Hospital with a head cut and a fractured arm after a pickup she drove overturned on a rough road between Alien and Ida. Her husband Tom Turner works for SurRay Refining. The driver was helped by a man behind her who took her to the hospital. The injuries are painful but not expected to be serious.
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Billie Turner
Aden
Tom Turner
Surray Refining Company
Valley View Hospital
Hewlah Smith
Esther Williams suffers ear injury during underwater scene
Esther Williams sustained a left eardrum injury while filming an underwater studio scene on Friday. Ben Gage, her husband, said she will remain on land for several days of treatment. doctors do not expect the ear to be lost.
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Esther Williams
Ben Gage
Gage
Yrrman
Clairette Colburt
Licenses For Bikes Ordered In Ace City
Police announced morning that license plates for all bicycles in Ace have been ordered and will be issued soon. About seven whizzer bike riders were cited. One thousand bicycle plates were ordered and issuance will start soon at 25 cents each. Each bicycle will be registered. Motorized bikes require a State Department of Public Safety chauffeur license. Whizzer bike owners must have license plates issued through the city tag office. City police will crack down on bikes without licenses.
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Cecil
Sm&h
Ace
Isauznce
Spa
Motes Bikes
State Department of Public Safety
Buried Fane Explodes In Warsaw Causing Many Injuries
A ruined bomb or explosive device detonated in Warsaw injuring about thirty people seriously and injuring forty others lightly as bystanders watched a radio controlled German Goliath-type weapon. The chaos drew a busload of passengers and caused broad panic among witnesses.
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Fane
Warsaw
Warten
Strange New Metal Is Element No Longer in Nature
A speculative report describes curium as a newly described element 96 created in a lab. It states curium is synthetic, highly radioactive, and exists only in minute, viewable quantities. The article notes curium alongside plutonium Americium and neptunium as man made metals from the nuclear era.
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Alton EL. Blarkeslee
Asoulsiod Press
Ference
New York
American Chemical Society
Tractnre Perlman
University of Califorix
Dhatyistry
Isberstory
Americum
Neptunium
Earth
Perkin
Perlman
Funeral of Sulphur For State Pioneer
Funeral services for John Titman Alexander of Sulphur, a longtime resident, are set for Monday at 2 pm at First Methodist, with Rev. Roy Ward officiating. Born February 21, 1867 in Tennessee, he moved to Oklahoma in 1900, was a Mason for 55 years, and survived by wife, five daughters and four sons. Also noted is an oil well completion in Hughes county by Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp.
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John Titman Alexander
Dreky
Sulphur
First
Methodist Church
Mouiay
Gam
Roy Ward
Chesnerville
Cississippi
Quahoma
Berwyn
Drake
Cong Glen Johnson In Ada Address Reports First Postseason Visit
Congressman Clem D. Jonson of Okemsh visited Ada Monday night for his first official stop since adjournment. He spoke at the district courtroom on his first report to the people as a RES member, criticizing Republicans tax cuts as benefiting the few and denouncing the new labor law as crafted by New York City manufacturers. Johnson highlighted Sen Robert Taft and noted Virgil Madock Tom D McKeown John Boyer Mic Keel attended and spoke.
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Clem D. Jonson
Okemsh
Ada
Congress
C Res
Fepublicans
Uphoty
Seta
Mg Fellows
New York City
Spangarz
R Johson
Robert Tait
Ohio
Virgil Madtock
Tom D. McKeown
John Boyer
Mic Keel
Truck Driver Survives Plunge After Bridge Crash
Austin Stevens, 34, survived a highway crash near Oxlaroma City when his truck plunged 30 feet into the Canadian River. He awoke after an hour amid weeds and fire, telling responders he must have dozed. He was taken to Norman hospital for a checkup. the trailer wheels had bounced off lines beneath the bridge seconds before the truck tire broke.
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Oxlaroma
City
Austin Stevens
Stevens
Highway Watvelines
Highway Panto
Hoey
Norman Hospital
U S Buys Gold From Bank of England News
London reports the Bank of England sold 380 million dollars in gold to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as Britain faces tax increases and cabinet reshuffles. Treasury officials say 20 million pounds from government reserves marked the first transaction since October default warnings.
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London
Bank of Engigat
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Treasury
Britain
Ioan
Attlee
Fritrad
Boy Kitled to Show He Was No Sissy
Newark New Jersey a ten year old school student was held today for the staging of an eight year old companion when the FBI said he admitted strangling with a belt in an abandoned warehouse because he wanted to prove himself. The boy Fred Walter Smigelski stated a confession describing how he had intended to kill someone to assert superiority amid his mother's demands that he perform household chores. He was held without charge at the parental home in Bayonne after Lincoln and the Gettysburg address copy was requested by George Banktratt.
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Newark
N. J
Aoi
Fred Walter Smigelski
Mather
Seszelski
Bayonne
Muskogee Dairymen Reject Offer For Higher Price
In Muskogee Oklahoma farmers reject a proposed higher price for milk and cheese production. Milk is allocated to schools and hospitals at 5.15 per hundred while processors had offered 5.8 but growers insist on orderly action. Some farmers await a settlement and higher prices. The Ada area shows milk and products up by two cents per quart with regional rises elsewhere.
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Muskogee
Okla
Masketee
Bend
Ada
Stockyard receipts rise in early 1947 period
Oklahoma City stockyards report higher cattle and calf receipts for the first eight months of 1947, with 573,172 head at the stockyards versus 497,514 in 1946. Hog receipts total 330,629 and sheep 196,971, compared with last year. Wheat yield averages 25.9 bushels per acre, with implied total crop around 1,?04,734,000 bushels.
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Oklahoma City
U.S
Beals
Finishing touches for SH 299 strip
A fragmented news note reports finishing touches on State Highway 299 from Tishomingo to the county line. It notes a $65,000 repair budget, an 11 mile reconstruction, and project costs in various counties with state officials cited. The text also includes stray, nonrelated quotes and garbled phrases.
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Tishominge
Ryan County
Hi, Grace
Acs
HE. Battey
Tishomingo
Johnster
Marshall
Grace Azys
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